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JAMES SEE, OF-MITGHELL, INDIANA.

Letters .Patent No. 79,503, dated June 30, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEGHANIGAL MOVEMENT.

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Be it kuown'that I, JAMES SEE, of Mitchell, in the county of Lawrence, and State of Indiana, have invented anew and improved Mechanical Movement; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and

exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, (making a part of this specificatiom) in which- My invention is represented by a perspective view.

The object of this invention is to furnish a. device by which the application of motive-power to machinery may be so reffulated, controlled, and directed, in conjunction with a set-of weights, levers, and ratchets, thata.

great saving of power shall be effected thereby, enabling the operator, by the application of any given amount of power at the main shaft, to obtain results at the peint where the power is to be-used, exceeding, by nearly one, hundred per cent., the results of any other apparatus hithertoinvented for a similar purpose.

In the drawings, A'represents the base, and B the supporting-frame of my apparatus, C being the main shaft, which receives the power, and D'being the shaft which finally applies such power, increased by the gain of otherforcc, derived from a set of weights, the operation of which is hereinafter explained.

The power may be applied to the shaft C from a. steam or air-engine, water or wind-wheel, horse-power,

vflog-power, or any other available source of motive-power. v c

In the drawing, Aan inclined wheel, E, is shown, which may be employed when a dog-power is used, and indeed the same construction of wheel and shaft as hee'irepresented is equally applicable to the use of power from any of the diiferent sources above enumerated.

In connection with the wheel E andthe main shaft, I use a horizontal shaft, F, to whichis fixed a small pinio n,f, which receives motion from the wheel E, by means of a series' of cogs, ee, on the under surface of the latter, and imparts such motion to theshaft F, and tio a large 'ccg-wheel, G, fixed thereon.

From the cog-wheelG said motion is transmitted to another horizontal shaft, H, by means of a. smaller spurwheel, lz. The latter, shaft is provided with two wheels, I, one shown at the right-hand cox 1er of the drawing, and the other hiddenbehind the wheel Gr, bythe position in which the view is taken. These wheels I I may be cccentrics, or they may each he .provided with a pinor crank, From one of the pins a cord, J,

passes up over a pulley, K, in the end of a'. lever, L, thence down through the loor or base-plate A, thence I across under said floor, towards the opposite side thereof, and thence up over another pulley, M, in the end of another lever, N, and down to the pin z', on the other wheel I. The pins z' z' are arranged' on opposite sides of the shaft so that when one is ascending th'e other is descending. As the shaft H revolves, the two pins alter- 4nately depress one end or the other of the rope or chain J, and, in consequence, one or the other of the levers L N, one-le`ver always rising while the other is falling.

Upon the 'shaft D, by which thel power is finally to be applied `to the working machinery, are two strong ratchet-wheels, O P, supported by stout braces, op, and rotatedonnnd with their shaft, by means of two strong dogs, 'Cb-Q', hanging from the end of the levers N, opposite to that where the pulleys K M are supported. As the levers are alternately worked up and down by the means and in the manner aboveexplained, the dogs Q Q "are applied to the ratchets P, and rotatelthcm'vand theshaft D, to which theyiare attached, with great power. v l

i' Upon the levers L N, just behind the dogs Q Q', are two heavy weights, W W', which may be adjusted along the lovers by the notches w w w, according tothe judgment of the operator or workman. .These weights add.their power to that of the levers, causing the dogs to act with a. greatly increased force upon the ratchet wheels. It will be observed that the motion of these wheels and the shaft D is always continuons anduniform, one dog or the other always exerting its force against the ratchets. Itwill be obs'erved,'also,'that no loss'of power occurs in lifting the weights W W', as one weight helps 'to raise the other.

The whole apparatus is simple, and can be constructed and attached to any running-machinery at little pxpense: It is not liable to get out of order, vand its working operation adds no expense to that of the other machinery. It has been thoroughly tested, und found to e-tect @saving of about one hundred per cent. over other devices for the same purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, imddesire to secure by LettersPatent, is- The apparatus above described, consistingvessentielly of the shaft C, wheel E, shaft F,'whee1sf G, sheft H, wheels h I I, cord or chain J, pulleys K M, levers L N, weights W W', dogs Q QI, rutchetewheels O P, and shaft D, when the several parts are constructed and combined as above described, and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES SEE.

Witnesses JOBN' RILEY, JAS. R. GLovEn. 

